eHomeUpgrade | Maxtor Expands Hard Drive Capacity to Half a Terabyte Apparently Maxtor is going to begin shipping 500 gig drives. I have to say, having owned many many Maxtor external drives that my general impression is that they are poor drives with high failure rates and consistent problems. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone.
Then again, I haven’t really found an external drive manufacturer yet that I can say I’m entirely pleased with.